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...much for environmental collapse happening in so many places at once has at last awakened much of the world, particularly the 141 nations that have ratified the Kyoto treaty to reduce emissions--an imperfect accord, to be sure, but an accord all the same. The U.S., however, which is home to less than 5% of Earth's population but produces 25% of CO2 emissions, remains intransigent. Many environmentalists declared the Bush Administration hopeless from the start, and while that may have been premature, it's undeniable that the White House's environmental record--from the abandonment of Kyoto...
...Kyoto accord on climate change did nothing to slow growth in China and India because as developing countries they are not required under the protocol to make cuts in carbon emissions--and that is not likely to change after the agreement expires in 2012. Both countries are desperate for energy to fuel the economic expansion that is pulling their citizens out of poverty, and despite bold investments in renewables, much of that energy will have to come from coal, the only traditional energy source they have in abundance. Barbara Finamore, director of the Natural Resources Defense Council's China Clean...
...pact by State Department officials last week, former Sen. Sam Nunn-an influential Democrat on defense issues who now co-chairs the Nuclear Threat Initiative, a nonproliferation organization-told the Washington Post on Tuesday that if he were still in Congress he'd be "skeptical" of the accord "and looking at conditions that would be attached." On the other hand, the day before former secretary of state Henry Kissinger penned an op-ed article in the Washington Post praising the agreement as "a seminal contribution to international peace and prosperity. "Ultimately, congressional Republican sources think that view will prevail...
...Republican Sen. Richard Lugar, who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has warmed only slightly to the agreement. Immediately after Bush signed it, Lugar was noncommittal. On Monday, he budged a little, telling his hometown newspaper, the Indianapolis Star, in an interview that he was "likely to favor" the accord if it was "in the best interest of our country" and if there were safeguards in place to make sure India didn't use U.S. nuclear help to build up the small arsenal of nuclear weapons it already...
...Ever since the deal was announced, nonproliferation experts have complained that India would get U.S. nuclear technology, hardware and fuel without any limits being placed on its weapons program - and without adequate safeguards that the American aid won't end up helping expand that weapons program. Under the proposed accord, for example, 14 of India's civilian nuclear facilities would come under IAEA inspections, but eight other nuclear facilities would be classified as military installations and not subject to inspections. Those facilities would be able to continue producing nuclear bombs, and critics charge that uranium the U.S. and other countries...